…the servants of the householder came and said unto him, ‘Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath come the tares?’ He said unto them, ‘An enemy hath done this.’ The servants said unto him, ‘Wilt thou then have us go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ~ Matthew 13:27-30, KJ21

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able,for ye are yet carnal. For if there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men? ~ 1 Corinthians 3:1-3, KJ21

The Word of God teaches believers—in Christ’s day and in this century—about how important Barley is to the Kingdom of God’s economy (God’s sovereign plan for mankind). Several Scriptures imply that Barley is the perfect representation of the first resurrection’s firstfruits (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:23), which would include the raptured Bride of Christ—both the resurrected dead in Christ and the alive saints at His coming. Furthermore, since Christ arose from the grave on the Firstfruits feast day—the same day that the Jewish Temple priest waved a sheaf of Barley before God for His acceptance—this Divine Truth is why Barley also represents the resurrected Christ who is the firstfruits of those who have died (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:20).

Now during biblical days, what was matchless about Barley was that it ripened in the spring before any other grains, and it did so without help from the Latter Rains. Barley also was a hardier grain than Wheat, because Barley was able to endure its harshest conditions—poor soil, less water, intemperate weather, and so forth—much better than Wheat. Perhaps the above facts are why Barley grew everywhere and in large amounts, or why Barley also was a healthy grain that resisted diseases. In fact, because of its early maturation, Barley wasn’t prone to pests and infestations like Wheat was. No doubt it was because of all the ancient health benefits in Barley that made Barley the grain that symbolizes perfection—the perfect firstfruits offering, the perfect sacrifice, and the perfect Bride of Christ.

Harvested a month earlier than Wheat, mature Barley—the seeds of which were planted in Israel the same time as Wheat’s—easily was separated from the chaff and the refuse. Surprisingly, mature Barley’s winnowing involved no crushing or threshing, even though it grew wildly and in abundant amounts. Barley only needed the wind, which effortlessly separated the chaff (husk, hull) from the grain.

Something else to note about both Barley and Wheat is that they also are used in the Word of God to symbolize types of believers. For this reason, it should be expected that what is true about Barley will be true about Barley Christians. Likewise, what is true about Wheat will be true about Wheat Believers.

For example, broken and multiplied by the Lord’s hands, the Barley bread—what He feeds the 5,000 and later His disciples at His Last Supper—represents how saved and born-again believers first must be broken so that the Kingdom of God work they will do can be multiplied. Christ is their example, for His body would be broken for many.

This last truth is why, on the day the Lord feeds the 5,000, He demonstrates the multiplied measure of Barley principle/miracle to His disciples and the multitudes, by causing each loaf of Barley bread in the His hands to be multiplied 1 to 1000 men. This multiplied measure of Barley principle/miracle first is seen in the Old Testament, as Barley is multiplied 2 to 1 over Wheat (cf.2 Kings 7:1), with Barley costing the same amount as Wheat. Then again in the New Testament, the measure of Barley is multiplied 3 to 1 over Wheat (cf. Revelation 6:6), with Barley and Wheat once again costing the same amount. People certainly will get more bang for their buck from Barley, but not so much from Wheat.

There can be no doubt that the multiplied measures of Barley over Wheat suggest that in the Kingdom of God it is, and always has been, more Barley Christians than Wheat Christians who are spreading the Gospel of Christ, and rightly so. More later on this point. Then too, in the times of famine and scarcity, which often are the results of war—as in the case of the siege of Samaria during the prophet Elisha’s day and in the case of the seal judgments that happen during the Tribulation Period—God designed it so that the poor, who would only be able to afford Barley, would remain healthier than the wealthy who would buy Wheat. Why? Well, it is because Barley is considered to have a near-perfect balance among its nutrients.

Now concerning Christ’s broken Barley loaves symbolizing believers’ brokenness, with genuine Christians their brokenness is the removal of all self-righteousness, jealousy, envy, strife, impatience, and so forth. This brokenness is achieved through the filling of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing sanctification process—the process of sanctifying (perfecting) them so that they effectively can feed the Gospel of Christ to the world’s unsaved multitudes. Once the Holy Spirit fills believers, He then is allowed to begin His progressive sanctification, which transforms believers into the image of Christ—changes their personalities and mindsets, more and more each day, until they become Christlike. Put differently, Barley Christians only need to be exposed to the Wind of the Holy Spirit in order for them to respond by walking right, talking right, speaking right, and thinking right. They truly are the sons and daughters of God who want to be pure (holy) and righteous.

Another example of how what is true about the Barley grain is true about the Barley Christians is in the way the Barley grain ripens before the Wheat grain matures. This early maturation of Barley represents saved and born-again Barley Christians’ spiritual maturity. There can be no doubt that Barley’s early maturation agricultural truth means that the corresponding spiritual truth happens the same way—Barley Christians and Wheat Believers who are saved (sown into the Kingdom of God) at the same time also will mature at different speeds. In particular, the Barley Christians will mature quicker than the Wheat Believers.

What is irrefutable is that the firstfruits Barley grain harvest in the Scriptures is symbolized as the first resurrection’s overcomers—the saints (i.e., Barley Christians) who are resurrected and raptured (winnowed or thrown up in the air against the wind)—translated; caught up; snatched off of this Earth—at the time of the Rapture of the Bride, but before the alive in Christ firstfruits are raptured. Put differently, there is no doubt that the raptured Bride of Christ is represented as the Barley sheaf wave offering that is lifted up and then waved before God for Him to accept it as a firstfruits offering.

In contrast, the Wheat Believers are symbolized as the Tribulation Period’s left-behinders—the rest of the believers. Unlike the mature Barley Christians who are raptured before the start of the Tribulation Period (the Wrath of God), the left-behind Wheat Believers who ripen during the Tribulation Period are in the Tribulation Period to experience the kind of separation or crushing/threshing that will cause these believers to be separated from their much harder husk (chaff, hull)—the world systems and doctrinal errors they trusted more than they trusted the Lord and/or Father God, when they were on the other side of the Tribulation Period.

All of the above was said so that the following can be said about why the Wheat Believers gathered at the end of the Age of Grace are NOT the Barley Christians and therefore not the Bride of Christ. In order to be the Bride of Christ (Barley Christians) or a Loaf of Barley that is to be broken for many, believers in Christ cannot have lost their first love, cannot be listening to and/or following the teachings of Balaam (idolatry and immorality), cannot be listening to and/or following the Nicolaitans and the Jezebel prophetess (more idolatry and immorality), cannot have passion that is dead, cannot have incomplete works, cannot be lukewarm, cannot be proud, cannot be ignorant of the Word of God, and cannot be spiritually blind. For sure, the believers who have lost their first love, and etc., are the Wheat (Wheat Believers) that must go through the Tribulation Period.

Once again, the Wheat gathered at the end of the Age of Grace actually will be carnal Christians who finally reached their spiritual maturity during the Tribulation Period. God made this point clear when He mandated that the firstfruits of the Israelites’ Wheat Harvest, from which the two loaves of Wheat were made and then waved on the Day of Pentecost, should contain LEAVEN (cf. Leviticus 23:17). Now that is so interesting, especially since God makes it clear in many biblical passages that leaven represents a type of carnality and sin. This Divine Truth only can mean that the Wheat Believers who go through the Tribulation Period had to do so because of the carnality and sin that were still in their lives.

In contrast, the Barley bread was made without leaven, and this fact is another reason why Barley—NOT Wheat—symbolizes perfection—the holiness and righteousness of a pure spiritual life. Moreover, the difference between unleavened Barley Christians and leavened Wheat Believers should make it understandable that the Wheat gathered at the end of the Age of Grace will NOT be the Bride of Christ. Indeed, Jesus Christ definitely is letting His Bride know in the parable of the Wheat and Tares that the surviving Wheat Believers at the end of the Tribulation Period were never His true believers who—on this side of the Tribulation Period—humbly were growing in Grace through faith in the hope, love, wisdom, understanding and knowledge of God’s Will for their lives. That is why it is the surviving Tribulation Wheat Believers—NOT the Barley Christians—who have to be separated from the Tares and then stored in the Lord’s barn.

Certainly a barn or storehouse is a far cry from the Bridal Chamber the Bridegroom (Jesus Christ) has prepared for His Bride (Barley Christians) in His Father’s House. That’s why the barn image also lets the true Bride of Christ (Barley Christians) know that the Tribulation Period’s Wheat Believers are not the Lord’s firstfruits overcomers, because these Wheat Believers are not gathered into Heaven but rather into the Lord’s barn. That is to say, these alive Wheat Believers no longer have one foot in the world and one foot in the Kingdom of God. They are now fully in the Kingdom of God, but that doesn’t mean they also have received their glorified bodies. The only thing that being put in the Lord’s barn means is that the Wheat Believers are completely safe and out of the reach of God’s enemies—Satan and his imps!

Now here begins the main point of this blog entry, which for many will be an uncomfortable truth. Be that as it may. Also in the Wheat and Tares parable, Jesus Christ is making it clear that the reason why His spiritual servants are not able to tell the difference between the Wheat Believers and the Tares (unbelievers) is because Wheat Believers are the leavened carnal believers. In other words, it is the carnality in the Wheat Believers that makes them look too much like unsaved worldly people (unbelievers)—makes them look too much like the Tares! This last point is why, until the agricultural Wheat bows—becomes mature—it is almost agriculturally impossible to tell the difference between the Wheat and the Tares. Likewise, until the weight of the spiritual Wheat Believers’ fruit causes them to bow humbly before their Lord, it will be nearly impossible for other spiritual believers to tell the difference between the leavened carnal Wheat Believers and the Tares (unbelievers).

No doubt this last fact is why leavened carnal Wheat Believers are in the Tribulation Period. It is obvious that God is giving them time to mature and finally get separated from the chaff—to have what is godly in them completely separated from what is ungodly.

There also can be no doubt that carnal babes in Christ—on this side of the Tribulation Period—will become the sold out for Christ Wheat Believers who were once on milk. As the apostle Paul declares, carnal believers cannot be fed the meat of the Word of God. If they can’t eat meat, then their milk diet will be the reason why they do not grow up fast enough—spiritually speaking.

Carnal believers’ slow spiritual growth keeps them from being prepared and ready (sanctified, Christlike), when Christ comes for His Bride, who is without spot, wrinkle or blemish. Therefore, the Bride of Christ is His ripened and harvested Barley Christians.

It is very unfortunate that the hard truth for some Christians to swallow is that Jesus Christ will leave behind—close the door/portal/gateway to Heaven—on the carnal babes in Christ who are not spiritually mature. Why? Well, the obvious truth is that they are carnal believers instead of spiritual believers! As such, there was no way the Holy Spirit could finish the work God began in them—no way He could give them their completely sanctified spirits, souls and bodies so that they could receive their glorified bodies!

That’s right! Today’s carnal believers are not becoming Christlike because they are not being sanctified by the Holy Spirit, who cannot initially fill them (baptize them in Him) so that the sanctification process can begin. If these believers in Christ do not cooperate with the Holy Spirit so that He can give them His filling—His Baptism that is corroborated, first and foremost, by the speaking in tongues—then these carnal believers (Wheat Believers) will continue to look the Tares until these carnal believers either physically die—on this side of the Tribulation Period—or until they become completely faithful and obedient to Christ during the Tribulation Period. However, by then, they either will be martyred (beheaded for their love of Christ and God, and for their holy and righteous living) or they will survive the Tribulation Period and become the holy and righteous individuals who—like Noah and his family—repopulate the Earth.

In contrast, neither the Barley grain nor the Barley Christians resemble Tares. This truth no doubt is why Barley Christians represent genuine Christians. Moreover, Barley Christians are filled with the Holy Spirit, as well as empowered and endowed by Him. As a result, these believers will be producing the fruit of the Spirit and living righteous and holy lives that will make them standout instead of making them bear a resemblance to the Tares. This truth is why ONLY the carnal babes in Christ will be the Wheat that is growing right alongside of the Tares—both on this side of the Tribulation Period and during the Tribulation Period—at least until they become sold out for Christ followers.

The bottom line is this: In the Word of God, there are two grain harvests that belong to the Lord—the firstfruits harvest and the subsequent harvest (the Barley harvest and then the Wheat harvest), with the latter being larger than the former. Now that should be no surprise, since the Word of God reminds true Christians that only a few of people—a remnant—of all of the world’s people will find the narrow path that leads to the Kingdom of God gate, enter through the gate to the Kingdom of God, and continue walking on that path. This Divine Truth is why the Word of God also promises there will be two spiritual harvests—the harvest of Barley Christians and the harvest of Wheat Believers.

Just like the agricultural Barley harvest comes first with the agricultural Wheat harvest following, the Barley Christians or Bride of Christ’s pre-Tribulation spiritual harvest will come first, and it will be followed by the Tribulation Period’s finally sold out for Christ surviving Wheat Believers’ end of the Age of Grace spiritual harvest. Clearly, the Barley Christians and the Wheat Believers are not the same people, and that is why both of these groups of believers cannot be the righteous, pure (holy), and unblemished believers who, after being sanctified, are given glorified bodies and then admitted into Heaven as the Lord’s Bride.

Lastly, the reasons why Barley is important to the Kingdom of God are what follows. The first reason is because Barley’s multiplication principle/miracle represents how swiftly The Way—in the first century—and today’s real Christianity spreads. Put differently, Barley signifies just how often God has added another follower of Christ to the Lord’s ekklesia—the emphasis should be on GOD being the One adding genuine followers of Christ to His ekklesia and NOT on men and women adding new converts to their “church” rolls. Secondly, since Barley grows everywhere, tolerates the harshest conditions, and endures inclement temperatures, it should be obvious by now that ONLY Barley represents all of the persecuted Christians from the first century until the Rapture of the Bride of Christ, and all of the centuries of Christian missionaries—whether apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers. In short, Barley is important to the Kingdom of God, because Barley symbolizes the Age of Grace’s pre-Tribulation raptured perfected Bride of Christ.

Again, the kingdom of heaven islike a net that was thrown into the sea andgathered fish of every kind.When it was full,men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. ~ Matthew 13:47-48, ESV

The Dragnet parable is unmistakably a picture of the work of Jesus Christ and His followers, as they invite people to enter God’s Kingdom through faith in the Gospel of Christ—the dragnet. The Lord’s main point in this parable is that the Great Commission would eventually reach many who will say they are His, but the uncomfortable truth is that scores of them won’t belong to Him. Put differently, just like the dragnet catches all kinds of fish—regardless of their usefulness—Christ’s Gospel draws all kinds of people—many who never repent and/or never follow Jesus Christ.

This Divine Truth is why in The Dragnet parable Jesus Christ is warning us about the false teachers, false preachers, and false “church” members who will be masquerading as Christians. He also is teaching us that—just like the caught fish cannot be sorted until the net is pulled ashore—all of the pretend Christians won’t be known until the end of the Age of Grace. The Lord communicates these hard to swallow truths through the “bad” fish in the net symbolism. This parable’s “bad” fish symbolize the seeds of God’s enemy that are planted in the net to disrupt and discredit God’s Kingdom—much like the tares planted in the field of wheat in Jesus Christ’s Wheat and Tares parable. Then too—like in The Wheat and Tares parable—this Dragnet parable refers to the end of the age separation of righteous Christians and unrighteous pretenders.

Once the separations are completed, both the “bad” fish and the tares are judged and then thrown into the Lake of Fire. Moreover, like the wheat, the “good” fish will enter the Millennial Kingdom as mortal believers in unglorified bodies—the people who will repopulate the Earth.

The Lord’s moral lesson in His Dragnet parable is this: There is a day of reckoning coming—the day when the Lord will separate true believers from pretend believers. Jesus Christ also is teaching us that being caught in the net in no way means that every fish is a “good” catch. These Divine Truths are why we should not see weekly attendance at and involvement in local “churches” as signs of authentic Christianity, because the sobering truth is that there are far too many “bad” fish attending “church” services and working on committees than we know—way too many “churchgoers” are not blood-bought, justified, sanctified, and Holy Spirit-filled believers.

…For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;for it is written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.’ So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. ~ Romans 14:10-12, ESV

Why is it that we do not think it is strange when ungodly people refuse to seek Jesus Christ’s Wisdom, Understanding and Direction before making personal, professional, social and spiritual decisions, yet we seldom question why believers behave in like manner? The hard-hitting truth is that both unbelievers and believers demean the authority of Jesus Christ, when they restrict His sovereignty to only those decisions that they could care less about—when all is said and done.

It is sad that believers think Jesus Christ is capable of handling decisions about what color they should dye their hair or what shoes they should wear, but think He is incapable of handling decisions about—for example—their careers, families, friends, responses to pro-life or pro-choice issues, worship practices, or what to do with their money. Even so, believers always should consider what decisions Jesus Christ would want them to make that involve the difficult, average or easy situations or struggles in their personal, professional, social and spiritual lives.

No human beings—believers included—will have any excuses to give or lies to tell the Lord, when they either are standing before His Judgment Seat or the White Throne of Judgment and giving an account of everything they thought, said and did in their mortal bodies. That’s why believers must consider—on this side of Heaven—what they will tell their Lord and Savior, when He asks them why they made decisions in their lives that did not involve seeking Him first for godly Wisdom, Understanding and Direction. There will be no way to lie or make an excuse then, since He already knows the answer to His question. In other words, He will ask believers why they neglected to consult Him about everything that had to do with their lives—not because He doesn’t already know why, but—so they fully will comprehend and be sorry about their often nonchalant and frequently unwise decisions.

Christians’ lives belong to Jesus Christ. This Divine Truth is why they never should forget it is to Him they will give an account of: their actions, spoken words, and thoughts; how they used His spiritual gifts, natural talents, and time; and whether they used His gifts of Grace, Salvation, Holy Spirit, and godly Characteristics to glorify Father God and minister to people in need. Shalom.

And Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there overnight, because the sun was set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down there to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the Lord stood over andbeside him and said, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father [forefather] and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying. ~ Genesis 28:10-13, AMP

Fallen Angels

time traveling,

transversing

multiverses to universe . . . interdimensional . . . .

Sonic boom effects:

thunder, lightning,

hail storms, thick clouds,

quakes, fire, smoke . . . .

Portal-opening event—

spiritual demotion . . . .

Maiden voyage:

immortal meets mortal,

perpetual with temporal;

confined by time rebels,

malevolent spirits

generating chaos . . . darkness . . . .

Complex corruption—

genetic preprogramming

reprogrammed;

function copycatted,

DNA mutated . . . .

Watchers and daughters of men:

Nephilim offspring,

Fallen Angels’ advance technology

in Edenic Period . . . .

Contamination Water purified:

evil Watchers

chained in Abyss;

every corrupted

human destroyed,

the First Death . . . the Flood judgment . . . .

Nimrod’s attempt:

Tower of Babel

portal-opening

function thwarted;

tongues confused,

mankind scattered . . . .

Interdimensional ancient gates:

Mount Hermon—

Fallen Angels’ gate,

Babylon—

occult gods’ gate,

Mount Sinai—

Throne of God gate,

Jacob’s Ladder—

Third Heaven gate;

Gateways open to:

evil spirits and

godly spirits;

invisible in visible,

hidden realities

descending, ascending;

Transversing of spirit realm

into material realm;

and vice versa—

earthlings into

Third Heaven . . . .

By and by greatest deception birthed:

mass conversion of

religious-like beliefs—

UFO faith . . . .

Mankind’s hearts—

ultimately terrified

by alien invasion;

ignorant of demonic infiltration . . . .

End-times hybridization:

counterfeit Christ—

Fallen Angel-sired Antichrist

borne of woman—DNA

genetically manipulated . . . .

Mahdi world leader—

without family love,

without loyalty;

blasé about ancestors’ gods

blasé about trendy gods . . . .

Marches to different drummer beat—

for a little while,

spiritually led by

released Watcher,

Abyss’ Apollyon—

The Destroyer . . . .

We’ve come full circle:

DNA mutations a

fait accompli;

cyborg super soldiers

an inevitability;

locust-like, horse-like

demons unleashed;

Watchers to lead the charge

to annihilate mankind;

interdimensional time travel

global tradition . . . .

Bride raptured into Third Heaven—

rescued from imminent Wrath

The Tribulation Period . . . .

Contamination Fire purified:

all corrupted human and spirit beings

thrown in Lake of Fire—

the Second Death . . . the Fire judgment . . . .

~ June 2015

…and to the angel was given the key of the shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit). He opened the long shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit), and smoke like the smoke of a huge furnace puffed out of the long shaft, so that the sun and the atmosphere were darkened by the smoke from the long shaft. Then out of the smoke locusts came forth on the earth, and such power was granted them as the power the earth’s scorpions have. They were told not to injure the herbage of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but only [to attack] such human beings as do not have the seal (mark) of God on their foreheads. ~ Revelation 9:1b-4, AMP

TheLordsaw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that everyintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.Andthe Lordregretted that he had made man on the earth, and itgrieved him to his heart.So theLordsaid, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.’But Noahfound favor in the eyes of theLord. ~ Genesis 6:5-8, ESV

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ~ Matthew 24:37, ESV

We are living in a revived Hybrid Age—an Age prophesied about in the books of Enoch, Jubilees and Jasher. In these three ancient texts are passages that describe the original Hybrid Age—the Age in which Noah lived as being the first in which DNA was genetically manipulated, and the generation in which Nimrod lived as the first generation in which cosmic-scale technology was pursued.

After the Watchers (angelic class) during Noah’s day revealed some secrets of creation and important building blocks of society to mankind, many of the pre-Flood human beings quickly desired to produce a superior race that would make slaves out of the Adamic race. Even the Watchers desired to produce their own advanced beings. This is the reason why these Fallen Angels created a genetically altered human race—the giants or Nephilim.

According to Jasher 4:18, pre-Flood mankind also began to experiment with genetically manipulated animals (the mixing of incompatible animals of one species with another species; e.g., the blending of a horse with a human). In the extra-biblical text of Jasher, these words are written:

And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals. ~ Jasher 4:18; Internet Sacred Text Archive, Book of Jasher, Chapter 4

This ungodly tampering with God’s creation—altering mankind’s DNA—no doubt is what provoked God to the point that He finally was fed up with mankind. The end result is that He destroyed the entire world with a Flood.

In the AncientBook of Enoch, Enoch prophesies that the Watchers or Fallen Angels would be bound in the Abyss for 70 generations—after the Flood. At that time, they will be set free to receive their final judgment—their place in the Lake of Fire. The following prophecy attributed to Enoch is recorded in Ken Johnson’s Ancient Book of Enoch:

The Lord said unto Michael: ‘Go, tell Semyaza and his associates who have defiled themselves by marrying women, that they and all those they contaminated will be destroyed. When they have seen their sons slay one another and all their loved ones destroyed, bind them for seventy generations under the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment and of their end, till their last judgment be passed for all eternity. In those days they will be led off to the fiery abyss, to the torment and the prison in which they will be confined forever. And whosoever was condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. Destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have oppressed mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear, and it will prove a blessing; the works of righteousness will be planted in truth and joy forevermore. ~ Enoch 10:11-16, pp. 23-24

Now in many biblical Scriptures, it is evident that after the Flood the lifespan of mankind leveled off at 70-80 years. The Psalmist also describes the length of a generation as 70-80 years (cf. Psalm 90:9-10). While wars, diseases, famines, and other factors down through the years have caused the number of years to a generation to fluctuate, the length of a generation today is still pretty much 70-80 years—the length of a generation since King David’s generation. Therefore, if Enoch’s prophecy is right and because the length of a generation is still 70-80 years, then that means that our generation is very close to the end of those prophesied 70 generations or 4,900 years Enoch said would pass before the chained in the Abyss Watchers/Fallen Angels would be released.

As already mentioned, Nimrod’s tower, stairway to Heaven, or stargate—the pinnacle of occult knowledge—was Nimrod’s example of the available cosmic-scale technology in his day (in his wicked generation). He wanted to use his tower not only to spread his occult practices upward into Heaven but also to make a name for himself by being the first person to pry open a portal/gate that leads to God. More specifically, Nimrod was seeking to open an interdimensional doorway into the spirit realm/eternal realm (i.e., time travel), because he was trying to maintain technology and physics—the secret creation knowledge the Watchers had shared with pre-flood human beings, who didn’t get the chance to apply all that they learned. Nimrod didn’t get the chance either, because God confused the language and scattered all of the people.

However, the human race is now right back where it was in Noah’s day. Additionally, some 4,500+ years later, CERN scientists are hoping to get a shot at achieving what Nimrod failed to do.

What is all this hullabaloo about Noah and Nimrod’s days? It is this: Just like the genetic manipulations in Noah’s day have come full circle with our 21st century’s Transhumanistic Revolution, the strange events (the activity of Satan and the spirit of the antichrist) surrounding the construction of Nimrod’s Tower of Babel (a portal/gateway intended to reach into the heavenly realm) have come full circle with the strange events (the activity of Satan and the spirit of the antichrist) taking place inside of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (a portal/gateway intended to reach into the heavenly realm).

There is no doubt that 21st century’s human beings definitely are technologically competent to do whatever they imagine to do. This truth is ever-so evident wherever there are human enhancement experiments (genetic manipulations), and evident wherever present-day scientists are searching for interdimensional portals (seeking time travel)—the former of which is happening in laboratories all over the world; the latter is happening primarily in CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.

The only good news in all of the prophesied doom and gloom is that God will not let today’s scientific community succeed where the genetic manipulators in Noah’s Age failed (e.g., the Watchers with their Nephilim and mankind with its hope to mix two entirely different species), nor where the cosmic-scale technology in Nimrod’s generation failed. There can be no doubt that for God these two repeat attempts—the altering of mankind’s DNA structure and the opening of an interdimensional stargate—have to be the last straw. God is not going to allow mankind to shake its fist in His face, as it were—always be at odds with God (cf. Job 15:17-26).

Just like God used the prophesied Flood judgment to wipeout genetic mutations that happened in Noah’s day, He is going to use the prophesied Fire judgment to cleanse this Earth of the genetic mutations and the released Fallen Angels (Watchers) plus the 200 million demons they rule that enter through the open portals in our time. Out of the Abyss—the portal to which is located at the River Euphrates, where the wickedness in Noah’s day caused the Flood and where the wickedness in Nimrod’s generation caused God to confuse tongues and scatter mankind—will come an army of 200 million locust-like demons that have the power of scorpions, which the prophet Joel and apostle John describe as warring horsemen. Not only do these locust-like demons torment left behinders with powerful stings that cause excruciating pain, which makes the stung people wish they were dead, but also the horse-like demons the locust-like demons ride cause physical death—with their mouths and serpent-like tails—to one third of mankind (cf. Joel 2:1-11, Revelation 9:1-11 and Revelation 9:13-21). Both of these demonic spirits will be some of the most evil spirits ever that enter through the end-times portals scientists like those at CERN open.

Today’s Laodicean Christians need to wake up and discern the signs of the time. A word to the wise should be sufficient. Shalom . . . .

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. ~ Jn 3:19

The “LIGHT” that Jesus Christ commands us to shine, metaphysically speaking, is Creator God. Creator God is “LIGHT” because He not only is pure—absolutely holy and righteous—but also He is absolute Truth, Wisdom and Knowledge. Creator God also is “LIGHT,” because He is the giver of all moral and spiritual enlightenments.

Since God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are ONE—the Trinity/the Godhead—through Jesus Christ believers learn that Creator God’s “LIGHT” is that which the Lord’s life fulfills as the Son, that which the Holy Spirit authenticates as the Truth Bearer and godly mysteries Revealer, and that by which Creator God’s Sovereignty—Supremacy—decides with whom He will entrust His power, authority and “LIGHT.” However, because individuals revere their darkness—their ignorant, barren, and wicked natures—within them more than they regard the significance of an inner light, it is their “darkness” that causes them to shrink away from those who are letting their lights shine.

In contrast, carnal believers shrink away from being true reflections of Jesus Christ’s Light, because they fear other light shiners will found out that they either are not the person many people believe they are, or they are not the person many people want them to be. Consequently, these believers foolishly will choose to live in darkness where they can call their evil good, because the evil in their soul has successfully condemned the Light they have in their spirit.

Jesus Christ is the Life through whom we are given an everlasting Light—our portions of spiritual light that emanate from Father God, who is the giver of all Life and LIGHT. Therefore, Creator God’s “LIGHT” should be evident in every believer, and every believer should be producing the kind of great works that glorify God. Like the great works that illuminate through Jesus Christ’s life—those works that shine in the face of adversities and calamities, as well as in times of favor and good fortune—every believer’s “light,” by the aid of the Holy Spirit, should reflect not only the same kind of great works but also greater works.

We must let our lights shine before all mankind so that unbelievers and disbelievers will see God and Jesus Christ in us and know the Godhead is our source of greatness. We also must let our lights shine everywhere so lost souls will desire to run from their darkness to God’s Light. Shalom.

We who are stronghave an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. ~ Romans 15:1-2

The friendly-fire oxymoron is an offensive expression for many Christians, because most of the injured or murdered Army of the Lord soldiers are new recruits—babies on milk. Even where older more seasoned veterans are concerned, there never is anything that could be considered friendly about the brutal rebukes these believers receive from spiritually stronger in the faith warriors.

Therefore, instead of being so critical of another person’s Christian liberties—freedoms; namely, acts that neither are forbidden in the Scriptures nor are regarded by God to be morally impure deeds—we should make sure that our own lives are above reproach by being absolutely sure that we have God’s permission to take the liberties that we exercise. We also must be very careful not to say or do anything that easily could become our weaker brothers and sisters’ stumbling blocks—occasions to sin.

To the same degree that we should avoid stunting our brothers and sisters’ spiritual growth by flaunting our liberties or by being overly critical of the liberties our weaker brothers and sisters take that are in conflict with ours, we should make certain that we ourselves understand that the source of any moral defilement comes from the attitudes housed in our own minds. That is why even we who are Jesus Christ’s Bride must daily renew our minds.

Then too, we definitely should be following Jesus Christ’s example. He only used His liberties to edify His weaker brothers and sisters. We always must do likewise. We who are His Bride must make sure that we are walking in love while doing what our Lord would do, which is strengthen the ones who are weak in the faith instead of wounding or killing their faith and/or their spirits.

The Body of Christ must stop engaging in friendly-fire skirmishes. To do this believers must realize that—when God deploys Army of the Lord soldiers to action-heavy trenches—those ditches only are meant to be breeding grounds for their faith. Shalom.

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ~ Matthew 6:31-33, ESV

“Church” attenders have become so good at manipulating their learned churchy-ology (so good at playing “church”) and so good at regurgitating their pastors and/or ministers’ theology—a theology that often is minus the Theos (God; the Creator)—that these churchgoers completely have missed or are missing their purpose for living. “Church” attenders were not created just to become believers in Christ Jesus, and they were not created just so they can get into Heaven. They also were not created just to preach the Gospel—to evangelize and disciple the whole world.

First and foremost, God has created human beings for His Glory (see Isaiah 43:7; 1 Peter 4:11). His Glory is the beauty and excellence of His diverse holiness or countless perfections. His Glory also is the revelation and manifestation of His Character or all that He has and all that He is.

Put differently, God has created every human being for one purpose—to glorify Him. The problem is that so many believers are running around—like chickens with their heads cut off—“trying” to figure out what their purpose is for living, when the Word of God makes it clear that humanity was created to display or manifest—to reflect—God’s Character (His Glory), and to do so 24/7 – 365 days of the year.

Once again, we all have been created for one purpose—for God’s Glory; to glorify God. Now glorify means: to magnify, praise and worship God; to accredit honor to God; and to acknowledge Him (His total being, attributes/characteristics, and deeds). Therefore, for us to glorify God, we must desire what He desires for us.

Scriptures tell us that God desires that we accept and confess His Son as our Lord and Savior, that we fully love Him (the Father) with the God-kind of love He has put inside us; that we absolutely love Him with our whole being; that we totally obey Him, and that we are utterly faithful to Him, as demonstrated by our God-kind of faith in Him. We also glorify God when we genuinely praise Him and truly worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (His Word is that Truth), when we publicly acknowledge His Glory and value His Glory above the glory of all created things/beings, and when we openly make His Glory known to others—make God recognizable to others; show others what God is like. Lastly, we glorify God when we bring Him honor (please Him) through everything we say, do and think.

The only way we can fulfill this purpose—the glorifying God purpose—is through the aid of God’s Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not in us just to take up space (to live/dwell in us). He is in us to fill us with everything God’s Grace has made available to us so that we who are in Christ Jesus can glorify God just like our Lord glorified His Father. It is the Holy Spirit’s responsibility to take those of us (we believers) who are born again, saved, and filled with Him into the Kingdom of God where He (the Holy Spirit) disciples (teaches/trains) ALL of us on Kingdom of God living—teaches us everything we need to know about the knowledge of God so that our individual “new life/new creation” keeps glorifying God until His Kingdom in all of us is brought to its fullness.

We never were created just so that we can live comfortable lives—have comfortable jobs, comfortable paychecks (or comfortable bank accounts/savings), comfortable homes, comfortable friends, and/or comfortable churches or ministries. If we are born again, saved, and filled with the Holy Spirit, we will know that it no longer is about us living our own lives the way we want, because our lives now belong to Christ Jesus. We no longer can live as we please, because Christ Jesus has committed our lives to Kingdom of God living. In the Kingdom of God, only Christ Jesus is Lord—not our pastors, bishops, elders, and so forth; not our earthly parents; not our godly family members and godly friends, not our positions and titles, not our money, not even we ourselves.

The Kingdom of God’s King of kings and Lord of lords has commanded us to live our lives in the Kingdom of God for the Glory of God. If we have not surrendered or are not surrendering our lives to Christ Jesus’ Lordship and Kingdom of God living, then we have been blinded by the blind Kingdom killers—our learned churchy-ology and accepted theology that is minus the Theos.

Selah (calmly pause and think about that) . . . . A word to the wise should be sufficient.

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ~ Romans 12:4-5

Every believer in Jesus Christ is a member of His spiritual Body. However, every believer in Jesus Christ’s Body neither is given the same spiritual gifts nor given the same combination of spiritual gifts. For example, every believer neither functions as a prophet, nor functions in the prophet-evangelist-shepherd combination.

There are five kinds of foundational ministerial gifts or God-ordained gifts: apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds (pastors), and teachers (see Ephesians 4:11-13). These God-ordained gifts are functions NOT titles! They are spiritual human gifts given by Jesus Christ to His entire Body. Mankind often confirms these spiritual human gifts with denominational ordinations, but God confirms these spiritual human gifts with His Holy Spirit who directs the God-ordained functions/gifts in believers whose callings are to serve and meet the needs of others.

There also are different kinds of manifestative spiritual gifts (e.g., word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning spirits, diverse tongues, and interpretation of tongues; see 1 Corinthians 12:7-11). These spiritual gifts are how God’s Holy Spirit works through believers in a given situation so as to demonstrate God’s supernatural power.

Lastly, there are different kinds of motivational spiritual gifts (e.g., prophecy, service, teaching, exhortation, giving, leadership and mercy; see Romans 12:3-8). These spiritual gifts are how God’s Holy Spirit works in believers to shape their worldview and motivate their words and actions.

The common denominator in the foundational ministerial gifts, manifestative spiritual gifts, and motivational spiritual gifts is the Holy Spirit. God’s Holy Spirit endows every believer with any number of these functions/gifts—each believer gets the functions/gifts God wants that person to use in the Body of Christ. Each “called” believer operating in ordained, manifestative and motivational spiritual functions/gifts in love will use these gifts in an orderly fashion, as he or she edifies and equips the Body of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission of evangelizing and discipling the world.

How are you using your ordained, manifestative, and motivational spiritual gifts? Shalom.

So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. ~ Hebrews 10:22- 25, MSG

Some people have maintained that Hopscotch (the game) originated as a pagan ritual involving the retrieval of an object—a pagan ritual that supposedly the early Christian “Church” assimilated and over time reduced the ritual to a child’s game. This Christianized pagan ritual that became a child’s game is said to have had some eschatological symbolism embedded in the names given to the top semicircle. Since the last shape on a hopscotch court either was called paradise or crown of glory, a hopscotch court supposedly represented the soul progressively moving from Earth to Heaven.

However, other people have maintained that if a Christianized pagan ritual had received symbolic eschatological names, such as the names given to the highest shape on the hopscotch court, those hopscotch court names that supposedly had Christian beliefs embedded in them have been overlaid with symbols that suggest a totally different foundation. Some people have believed that in place of the alleged symbolic eschatological names of paradise and crown of glory are common worldly stages symbolized by the hopscotch court’s squares, triangles, rectangle and semicircle. These shapes represent a person traveling to a dangerous place, picking up an object, and returning back home safely. Other common worldly symbols people have said are represented in the hopscotch court’s shapes are rites of passage—the various important stages of life.

This blogger suggests that, if there really were some embedded Christian beliefs in the eschatological names used to symbolize the semicircle on the hopscotch courts early Christians might have used, the 21st century’s symbols representing “church-hopping” probably have overlaid those prior symbols’ foundations. While some believers might think it is wise to visit many local churches before deciding which “church home” is best for them (i.e., “church shopping”), the truth of the matter is—if God is not the One who is adding these Christians to a particular “church home”—many of these “church shoppers,” who select a “church home” for themselves, eventually will end up “church-hopping”—going from one “church” to another without committing to any particular “church” for any significant amount of time.

God’s design is for believers to live in a community with a group of born again, saved, and Holy Spirit filled believers. Sometimes that isn’t possible, for example, if the towns or cities in which Christ followers live have no local churches that remotely resemble the first-century ekklesias. Nevertheless, wherever and whenever there is no fellowshipping with likeminded believers, there usually will be professed Christians who are less concerned about reaching lost souls, less concerned about the nation’s moral condition, and less concerned about making a difference in this sin-sick world. In other words, where “church-hoppers” are concerned, it is doubtful that they will be progressively moving from glory to glory—moving from Earth to Heaven.